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Incredibly tiny quadrotor autopilot brings promise and peril

2013-08-27 21:02:01| Extremetech

Weighing less than 2 grams, this tiny chip can make the most unobtrusive drone into a self-guided tool for everything from rescue to surveillance.

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Goldman Options Error Shows Peril Persists One Year After Knight

2013-08-21 17:48:45| Automakers - Topix.net

For all the efforts to shore up electronic markets in the aftermath of one of America's biggest trading catastrophes, yesterday's options malfunction by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. shows the dangers haven't gone away.

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Investors in agriculture ignore environmental risks at their peril

2013-08-12 13:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Forget hi-tech stocks or shares in fast-growth pharma. Farming is where the clever money is heading these days. With the world enjoying the longest agricultural commodity boom since the second world war, billions of investment dollars are funnelling into farm-rich emerging markets such as Brazil, Nigeria and China. More established agricultural powerhouses such as North America and Russia are surging too. Many investors are sitting pretty as a consequence. Global farmland asset values, for instance,...

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Ala. Oil Sands Hold Lucrative Promise, Environmental Peril

2013-08-11 07:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Associated Press: A financial boon could be awaiting Alabama just below the earth's surface in parts of north and west Alabama. That's what some consider to be the potential of oil sands -- or tar sands as they also are called -- that geologists said are called in some areas, including Colbert, Franklin and Lawrence counties. According to some estimates, the oil sands hold 7.5 billion barrels of crude oil and a revenue source for the state that has remained untapped to this point. Environmental groups call...

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